Preeti to Unicode converter

In many Nepali news sites that use unicode, one can see several strange non devanagiri characters and some errors that look like result of typos. My understanding is that they type in TTF fonts like Preeti, Kantipur later converting into unicode using one of the many unicode converters available and those errors are due to the converters. I have made a converter which takes care of these issues.

Try it here.


I looked into source code and most of them have convoluted if statements making it hard to extend and test. Errors can be attributed to these causes

• incomplete mapping of characters 
• converters dont take into consideration variation in typing ie ordering of shirbindu, chandara bindu and halanta 
• these converters are available for Preeti and text typed in other fonts need to be treated slightly differently. 

This converter nep-ttf2utf an open source software which looks to solve these problems. It began as a port of foss-np's 2utf8 into python and javascript. It features

• Supports Kantipur, Preeti, PCS Nepali and FONTASY HIMALI TT, Sagarmatha. Easily extensible to support other fonts. 
• clean regex based conversion rules
• well tested to ensure correct conversion, and has test suites and prevent regression of issues.